China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Saturday (9 March) that "sanctions are not the fundamental way of solving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue". Of course, he is right and knows better than anyone else as China "again shows itself to be an obstruction at the U.N. Security Council" in the latest round of sanctions against North Korea. "As one senior U.N. Security Council diplomat put it recently, if China had to choose between a nuclear North Korea and no North Korea at all, it would choose the former. Beijing wants to avoid a collapse of its impoverished neighbour. The dissolution of North Korea could mean a flood of economic refugees into China and the creation of a capitalist Korea controlled by Seoul and friendly with the United States." China's quandary with North Korea is an interesting example of a big nation being held hostage by a small state. It is just like a police officer being held at bay by a terrorist who threatens to bring down the roof with his barrel of gunpowder. North Korea's repeated defiance and challenges to China are analogous to the repeated bites of a dog on its master's hand. The dog's master keeps the beast with the intention of warding off robbers. However, the dog has its own agenda. It has no interest to serve or protect its master at all. Instead, it is eyeing the territory of another dog next door all this while. China's aim in propping up the North Korean regime at all costs is to keep North Korea as a buffer zone. The Chinese Communist Party can still tolerate a nuclear North Korea because it believes the North Korean gun would be pointing southwards as long as the Korean Peninsula is divided. North Korea, however, is not willing to remain as a subservient satellite to China. The North Korean regime has its own agenda of ultimately uniting the whole Korean Peninsula as one nation, not under democratic rule but under the totalitarianship of the Communist Kim Dynasty. As shown in North Korea’s behaviour in past few decades, China could never maintain the status quo of a divided Korea forever. The new Korean leader is young -- about 30 years old. Assuming that he won't die young from a fatal accident or deadly disease, he could live up to the ripe of old age of 80. With 50 years ahead of him, he has more than enough time to plan and carry out his agenda. He may not attack the South now as he still wants to enjoy life while he is still young. But it may be a different story once he feels the approaching of age and death, and decides to leave his mark on Korean and world history before entering the grave. Once the Korean Peninsula is united under a nuclear North Korea, the Korean gun would turn northwards, and there will be a very high chance that a few nuclear bombs could be thrown at Beijing and other major Chinese cities. When will China abandon the "dog" before bleeding profusely from the “bites”? Using another analogy from Sinbad's fifth voyage in the Arabian Nights, when will China shake off the "Old Man of the Sea" before dying from the misery of shouldering the unwanted burden day and night? After North Korean Nuclear Test, China Must Deal With Its Wayward Ally http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/w...oses-challenge-to-chinas-xi-jinping.html?_r=0 The Costs of North Korea’s Defiance http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2013/02/12/the-costs-of-north-koreas-defiance/ Sanctions not fundamental way of solving Korean Peninsula nuclear issue http://www.china.org.cn/china/NPC_CPPCC_2013/2013-03/09/content_28184685.htm UN imposes harsh new sanctions on North Korea http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/08/kore-m08.html Analysis: New sanctions on North Korea may be tougher, but impact in doubt http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/us-korea-north-sanctions-idUSBRE92715Z20130308 Sinbad the Sailor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor THE SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD THE SAILOR http://www.storybookcastle.com/stories/stories/?source_file=the_seven_voyages_of_sinbad
Washington has urged Russia and China to use their influence on North Korea to restrain the East Asian country as tensions continue to escalate on the Korean Peninsula. The request came after Pyongyang announced that it is readjusting and restarting all facilities at the countrys main Yongbyon nuclear complex. Can China and Russia restrain the North Korean regime? The answer is obvious to those who have been observing North Korea's belligerent behaviour in the past 60 years. Isn't it very silly to call on the owner to restrain his supernormal dog if he had already lost control of his monstrous pet 60 years ago? There is a more spine-chilling fact about the beast: The dog is walking the man and leading him by the nose gradually to the brink of the abyss. US urges China, Russia to restrain North Korea http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/03/296264/us-calls-on-china-to-restrain-n-korea/ LIFE HISTORY OF A DOG http://www.lookd.com/dogs/history.html
